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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03
I WONDER


If any fool can ask questionsp
If meanness is not hereditary?
How's the woodpile holding out?
If fear is not sometimes whole
some?
If public sales will be plenty this
spring?
Why the school board 30 seldom
visits the schools?
If. borrowing neighbors are not
always friendly?
How many saloons our W.C.T.U.
has put down in this city?
What is worse than boil on your
cheek? Paint, of course.
If Charley has seen an angel from
"The Creek" since Saturday?
If the people have not made it
hard for ministers to be true?
If it pays one business man to
advertise, why not another?
If cranks know what peculiar
feature it is that makes them such?
What name the BARRIERS have for
the style of hair cutting which some
people call "plush," others "hush," !"
and still others "brush?"
If tobacco growers would call
stealing chickens removing crops
from the poles?
Which pulls the hardest, a pair
of bob-sleds or long sled Of the
same length?
If visiting lady becomes angry
if one does not insist "why, what's
your hurry"
Why the Southern fur company
that wants 100000 cats doesn't send
an agent to our city?
If people who move away without
paying their subscription are not
entitled to free advertising?
What Policeman Healy thinks OF
of some of those young men whose
parents think are good enough for
the ministry?
If the toboggan is only an elabor-
alton Of the banana skin principle? ?
Why some people feel so import
ant that if anything happens to
disturb their serenity they at once
say it was "done on purpose?"
If it was a local preacher who
said "Last Sunday night the col
lection in this house amounted to
$I.s0, and the dollar was thrown IN
by visiting brother who happened
to be here and did not know any
better. The other 200 of you drop
ped in the so cents"
How the barber happened to be
lowering around in Jail alley when
he caught that horse? 1t was
fortunate act, however, as otherwise
somebody would have had to Walk
to country home.
If the absent-minded parson was
not little astonished when IN
reading to his congregation ne
turned over two leaves of the Bible
from the creation of Eve to the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03
IsCONSIN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1887.

tinually for twenty years. Besides
Mr.. Rewey there were on the boar d
at the time Mr.. Conveys resolution
came up for final consideration, six,
teen other members, the greater
number of whom had been members
of the board for periods ranging
from three to sixteen years, all of
whom voted with Mr.. Rewey to
postpone Mr.. Conveys proposition
for economy, Among those seven
teen members who voted to post
pone, were some of the most wealthy
men and largest taxpayers in the
county, and all were men of high
est honor and integrity. The
thought will not be entertained for
moment by any honest minded
person, whether he be a taxpayer
or not, that these seventeen honor
able members of the county board
who pay taxes on $4,000 would
intentionally misapply the public
funds, or that they are Indifferent
to the interests of the people.
Neither is it supposable that all
the seventeen members were mis-
taken in their views of public
economy because they failed to
adopt a resolution offered by one
member and supported by no other,
The one or two citizens who cen
sure the seventeen members of the
board because they could not agree
with the artificial notion of econ
omy of one member, have focused
their censure on Mr.. Rewey. But
the people of Iowa county esteem
Mr.. Rewey 100 highly to permit
their prejudiceS to be kindled for
such a cause. lie has served the
people in county affairs as long as
any man in the county, and his
integrity and the rectitude of his
good intentions have never been
impeached by any reputable cit.
izen; and he is especially free from
cause of censure, on this occasion
from the fact that he pays taxes on
property assessed at about $4,000
which can be taken as an evidence
that he is too much interested in
public economy to consent to the
needless expenditure of dollar
of the public funds.
DoN'T try to get along without {
good warm blanket this cold weather
when you can buy one so cheap a
! Deller's. He is sellinn them at cost
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03
The Local Field.

RIcHLAND CENTER is about to be-
ome city.
A FEW barrels of green apples
eft at Gales.
4 Fosters Beloit fine shoes AT COST,
J. P. IL Sons.
SHULLsBURG people are hugely en-
oying a toboggan slide recently
rected in that village.
THE wagon-road between this city
nd Darlington is said to be impas.
ible.
ALL kinds of cloaks for ladies,
misses and children are being sold
t cost price at Deller's.
GOSPEL MEETINGS are being con-
lucted at the M. E. church nightly,
md bible study and prayer meeting
4yery afternoon.
EVERY fine day hereafter till
Epril it will be the proper thing to
bay that "the backbone of the win
Ter is broken" :"
The handsome residence of Owen
King, at Helena, with all its con
ents was destroyed by fire Friday
bnorning, the total loss being about
$4,000, partially offset by insurance.
PRoTRACTED meetings still con
Elnue at the Z. M. church, though
eeather has interferred with gem
EraI congregations. A few conver-
flons are reported.
We have plenty of room in the
RIBUNE for news items and gossip
rom neighboring towns, and we re-
fpectfully urge everybody to aid us
making the paper interesting.
Mr.. o w. ElyLoE, Rewey, Wis,
Fho moved to Dakota last Spring,
las returned to the former place.
R|hlle absent one of his legs was
Put off below the knee, in an acci-
Dent.
HARRY, son of Hon. N. L. James,
fur state senator, of Richland Cen
fer, left for New York, on Monday
8yenlng where he will visit till next
Rjune, when he will go to West
ONT for examination for admission
Y cadet to that military school.
Mems boys and youths stoga kip
Eboots at very low prices. J.P. & S.
IHE choir of St. Mary's Grish)
Fatholic church undertook to drive
Ecross the country to Darlington last
SUNDAY, but were unable to reach
Eher destination; and now, as re-
EoIt OF their efforts, most of them
heed to put their stockings around
'Aelr throats upon going to bed.
BALED hay is having quite boom
Mineral Point at present. 1t is
EAlpped IN from Iowa, and retailed
mere by Robt. James and II. II.
Wright at from 80 to $ll per ton,
according to quality. A few farmers
are taking it by the carload. This
a deserving blow to those who
laa hay to sell, but were holding it
70 break bank to buy ton.
DELLER is offering the remainder
u ms stock of aointer goods at cost
/ f@e' Now is the time to secure a
bargain.
FROM the Volga, Dak.) Tribune,
Jan. 2Sth, we clip the following:
some Of our farmers have been i'm
proving the late fine weather in do
1- threshing." In the same paper
e notice they are cutting ice from
,"' 'eet to thirty inches thick, and
~1' nshes are dying for want of
""'eE Surely Dakota has an inter
sung climate if weather that pre-
uaee' such ice as described is con-
''1e'ed fine weather for threshing.
,las. AMELIA KSIBBs, widow of
"e 'ale hey. John Knibbs, died at
e nome in Des Moines, lowe, Jan.
lssl Deceased was esteemed
: a highly refined and christian.
1ay' She united with the NJ. E.
-och' In Mineral Point, at the
age Of l6, and was married in that
=. u SOS Her husband 7iad in
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03
Reneficial Department

.,blished for the accommodation of those
A q are in want in any way, those who have
u or found valuable property. and for those
sRo wish to sell or exchange. Limit, twenty
= words. First insertion FREE, and for each
...-rti9n thereafter TWENTY-FIVE cents.
/ osT.-Scarf, on Friday morning, about 3yds
tonr. l5yd wide, different colors of split
aebvr warn. Lost South of High Street.
Sadar please leave the same at this office and
btain reward.
rosiab C. Jaoka having located in California
] offers at private sale. at his late residence,
4 al his household furniture.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

Prairie du Chen, in 1884, after
which she removed to Des Moines,
Iowa where she resided until called
"to meet them on the other shore"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

DREssMAKING, by Miss Ida Wei
ton will be done neatly and prompt
ly, by the day, or at her home.
Residence opposite German Catho-
lie church. 5w2
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

MANY of our people have been
deferred from visiting the ice carni-
val by reason of the numerous "pal-
aces" erected on the Northwestern
Railroad track between this point
and St. Paul. Dakota folks know
when they get enough, and don't
go looking for more Vokga Tri6-
at1le.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

DoN'T try to get along without a
good warm blanket this cold weather
when you can buy one so cheap at
Deller's. He is selling them at cost.
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
Broken Dishes at Hotels.

Hotel managers here say that the fracture
Of dishes-china, glass and earthenware-is q
more serious item of expense than any out
slider would suppose. Although they make it
a rule, for their own protection, to Charge
broken dishes to the servants when they are
plainly careless, the rule does not relieve the
hotels from serious loss every year The
greatest amount of breakage is i'm handling
and washing; dishes may not be actually
broken at first, but they are constantly nicked
and cracked, and, after that, soon go to
pieces. Large houses, like the Fifth Avenue
and the Windsor sustain loss of fully $40, 600
annually in this way, independent of what
the servants pay for. Managers say that it
would be so per cent. greater except for the
system of fines imposed on the domestics,
who are made by it less needless. Any house
holder may judge from the destruction of
dishes in his own kitchen what it must he in
a great hOtel.-New York Commercial Adj
yertlser
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

A Richmond (Va) dispatch of Mon
day says: At the request of Cluverius,
Hon. John ). Wise visited him in his
cell to day and had long interview.
MIR. Wise and the prisoner both declined
to state the object of the latter's visit.
Willie b. Cluverius, the condemned
mans brother, requesting him to visit
the condemned man at the Jail. The
Governor declined to visit the prisoner
unless Cluverius has some new and i'm
portant facts in his case to present for
consideration, and sees no reason for
communicating with the prisoner.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

The chances, at present, are for . long
and weary debate in the Senate over the
interstate commerce bill, says the New
Orleans Times D,nlOcrat, with danger OF
it's final defeat by inaction. 1t has never
been doubted that the Senate contained
many railroad representatives. Far too
many members of that body have been
counsel for the railroads to make them
impartial in their action on a matter of
such vital importance as this. And it
was to be expected that Senators would
rise to defend, under some pretense or
other, all the abuses of railroads-poOls.
rebates, combinations and monopolies.
Senator Platt broke out Wednesday in
an earnest defense of pools, while he
pretended to think the principle of the
bill sound. Mr.. Plat took the position
that competition was not the life of
trade, but quite the contrary and that
pooling was the safeguard and protec>
ton of the country. He argued this
proposition very ingeniously, but we
doubt if he convinced any body outside
of the Senate. His plea that it is the
only way in which some railroads can
be run profitably is undoubtedly true !;
but these roads are mainly blackmailers,
like the Nickel Plate, which ought never
to have been built, which the country
did not want or need, and which were
constructed to force an entry into q
pool"
When the West sees the rates on grain
to New York cheap as long as the Erie
Canal is open and there is competitive
hauling to New York, and then suddenly
springing up by an arrangement of the
pool, as soon as the canal is closed by
winter, 1T does not feel the same sympa-
thy for pooling as Senator Platt, nor Is
it convinced that this is the great safe
guard of our commercial and industrial
interests.
There are a good many Platts in the
Senate, and they will devote themselves
to talking and delaying action IN the
bill. 1t ia admitted that it has some de-
fects, and it will require some time to
correct them. This fact and the OPP
position of the railroad Senators will rem
der it very difficult to pass the bill at the
present short session. although an earn
est effort will be made to do go.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

of eulogies upon General Logan, there
were several brief but Intei esting tributes
paid to his memory during the considera
ton of the bill.
The President appears to have entirely
n covered his old.tim vigor, and bis
lameness has left him. He has renewed
his custom Of receiving Senators and
Members calling upon business of I'M
portance before O'Clock in the after
noon. He has disposed of the business
laid over during his illness. and will
doubtless soon catch up with his current
work. Il.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

just as we are called upon to reverence
Abraham Lincoln as the typical Amer
ican," and Gen. Sherman as a man toe
fond sometimes of playing with fire, al
though he not only burned Columbia but
equivocated about, and deliberately and
maiiciOusly essayed to put the blame
upon Gen. Hampton, in order to make
him odious to his people, certain revela
tons are published calculated to throw
some light upon these idols. In another
column Judge Nelson, of New York, is
quoted as saying that while Mr.. Lincoln
was a strange character, "a child of na-
ture, with kindly impulses, with some
streaks of genius and much cunning" he
confesses that it is laughable how some
people seek to make him out demigod
According 10 Judge Nelson. the martyr
President" was an ihfidel of the Bob In
gersoll stripe, and never changed.-A"-
gHsfd Chronicle.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

!Satunnah Ne,rs: In the death of the
Rt Rev. Horatio Potter, ID. d., the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church has sustained
a severe loss. Some idea of the labor of
the deceased Bishop may be gained from
the following resume of his official acts
for the twenty-seven years of his episceP-
ate. In that time he performed "a, O92
combinations, and $50, 900 baptisms, of
whom 1883 are adults. He consecrat-
ed III churches, and laid over 100 corner
stones. He ordained $50 deacons. and
1854 priests, and instituted AZ rectors.
Bishop Potter, at the time of his death.
was S4 years CT age.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

The Socialists of Chicago have cap
tured the machinery of the labor organ
izations. An adjourned meeting of the
Chicago Trades Assembly was held in
that city on the 9th inst. to complete
the election of officers, on which coca
sion the Socialists rallied their support
ers and made clean sweep. Every
officer in the organization is now a
prominent sympathizer with the cause
of the seven men under sentence of
death. for the Hay Market bomb throw
ing. One officer Lum, the statistician.
is an ayowed Anarchist. After the
election the Bricklayers and Stonemasons
Union and the Knights of Labor local
Assembly, 4.321, withdrew from the or
ganization
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
THE DAILY NEWS.

THE DAuv NEWS ia published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
in the city, or mailed postage free, for 80 cents
. month. Sl.50 for three months. $3.50 for six
months, or s. per annun-
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an s-page 6S-column
PAPER published every FriIay, containing
all the news OF the week, local and general lt
the largest and handsomest weekly paper
published in Florida. and will be mailed post
are free for 81 a year, or 81 cents for siI
months. Specimen copies free TO any address.
Local advertisements ~ cents per line for
nrst insertion and 10 cents per line for each ad-
ditional insertion. Special notices 10 cents per
line. Reduced rates on continued advertise
All advertising bills become due pro rats
every month. Local advertisements due At
the expiration Of the time for which they are
4 l-ertet.
All rcIuittances should be made by express,
money order registared leffe~
Address, THE. NEWS,
PALATKA. FLORIDA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
CoIored worshipers at Washington.

There is a large Catholic church in WASH
ington attended exclusively by colored peo-
pie, with black saints in the inches and other
things to correspond IL is attended by a
colored aristocracy, and a membership in it
is considered a sign of tone by some. There
is a fine choir of negro voices, and masses are
sung quite as well as in those attended by the
whites. There is also a colored Episcopal
church, the rector Of which is a graduate Of
Trinity college and a man Of much ability
But aside from the two Presby terian churches
nearly the entire colored population attend
worship at those of the Methodist or the Bap-
tist faith ashington Letter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
The Florida Travel.

There does not appear to be any good
reason for announcing 70 the world that
winter travel to Flori0a has fallen OF TO
an alarming extent. Before making an
announcement of that sort the greatest
care ought to be taken that il 10 abso-
lutely correct. Tourists like to go where
the crowd goes, and if the the impress
sion gets abroad, even though incorrect,
that Florida is forsaken by its usual
crowds of winter visitors, incalculable
harm will be done the State.
The Morning Nears, a day or two ago,
published an interview with Col. Elliot,
the travelling agent of the Plant System,
in which ne stated that the travel To
FlOrida this season is as great as 1t ever
was. The Savannah, Florida and West
ern has certainly carried as many passen-
gers thus far this season as it carried
within the same period during any pre-
vious season.
While it is doubtless true that as many
visitors have not stopped at Jacksonville
this season as in other seasons, IL doesn't
follow that there has been any falling off
in the usual winter travel TO Florida.
There are dozen places where visitors
are entertained in the State now where
there was one a few years ago, and Wis
itors quickly become widely scattered.
Doubtless later on Jacksonville will have
her fair share of visitors. 1t will be re-
membered that early last year fears were
entertained that the visitors were not
coming, but they made Their appearance
in greater numbers than ever later in the
season, and left more money III the
State than in any previous year. The
same thing, doubtless. will happen this
year. When there is occasion for I'M
easiness respecting FlOrida's popularity
as a winter resort, the Morning NeTs
can be depended upon to announce the
fact, but it doesn't propose to injure
Florida by sounding unnecessary alarms.
-.SOtuHnHH NpWs
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
Queer Stories About Gerster.

Mime. Gerster is now in Paris, but nothing
is seen or heard of DR.. Gardini People tell
all sorts of stories about the prima donna's
condition, some asserting that her mind is
permanently affected, others that her voice
IS gone, and Others again that she and the
cavaliere dottore ARE out" A friend of
mine caught a glimpse Of the prima donna
the other day at French railway station
She was attended by q tall, middle-aged
Italian, and . little Swear old girl stood be
side her. Nine. Gerster was the picture OF
health. but she wore a combination Of Prus-
sian blue and crimson that suggested that the
persons who said that she was not quite her
sal: mentally might not be so far from the
.ruth-Town Topics.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

Women have at last been officially
recognized. Two of them have been ap-
pointed on the schoorboard of New York
City-Mrs. Mary Nash Agney and Miss
Grace III. Dodge. They are the first
women who have occupied seats in the
board. Their appointment was about
the last of the official acts of Mayor
Grace. The public will look forward
with some anxiety to the participation of
women in this important position, and
their deliberations will be very closely
watched. For our part we can see
nothing Objectionable in women on
school boards. Ii any body is interested
in the education of children it is the
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11
The loss of confidence in the Panama

Canal scheme, since the announcement
of the sea-level plan, has stimulated the
friends of the defunst Nicarauga Canal
project to revive the same, and the bill
which was introduced at the las,
session of Congress to incorporate
the Maratime Canal Company, of Mic
arauga, with some amendments, has
been reported favorably to the Senate.
1t remains to be seen whether the projec.
tors of this scheme. will be able to in.
spire investors with the same confidence
AS did M. de Ie'seps in his Panama prof.
oct
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

1t would appear that paper, as a mate
rial for the manufacture of shoes, has
been generally maligned. The paper
soles" of the understandings supplied to
the French army was one of the alleged
causes of its disasters in 1870. But the
English press speaks very favorably of
paper shoes Of American manufacture,
recently introduced into England. The
advantages claimed for these shoes are
highly important. To begin with. they
are much cheaper than leather shoes /;
they are said to be imperviOus to water,
and are susceptible of vcly high polish,
and, being seamless, they are less apt to
hurt the feet.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-11

. Judge Barrett,'of the New York Su-
preme Court, has decided that insurance
companies, operating on the CO operative
and assessment plan, cannot insure in
fants. He said: "Only members who
accept obligations of such membership
can be thus insured. 1t follows that in
fants cannot be insured in such societies
because they cannot contract as mem
hers :"